Planning Commission approves hotel, housing, industrial site plans and multiple easement actions

The Planning Commission on Jan. 15 approved a series of site plans and mandatory-referral easement actions, including a 65,000-square-foot Fairfield by Marriott hotel, a 29-unit multi-family development by the Murfreesboro Housing Authority, a 23,346-square-foot office and warehouse for Titan Material Handling, and two utility-easement actions related to Stonebridge at 3 Rivers and the city’s Town Creek project.

Miss Smith, planning department staff, said the Fairfield by Marriott application is at final design and site-plan review and that "almost all comments have been addressed at this time," asking that any approval be made subject to the remaining staff comments. The commission voted to approve that application with the standard condition that outstanding staff comments be resolved.

The commission also approved Mercury Park Blocks 45, a Murfreesboro Housing Authority project for 29 multi-family units on about 3.12 acres along Hancock Street and Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Miss Smith described the project as a continuation of a previously approved planned development that includes two-story and three-story products, pocket parks, a Rover bus stop, on-site mail kiosks and a mix of trash collection approaches (individual poly-cart pull-outs on one side and a commercial dumpster enclosure on the other). Thomas Rowe of the Housing Authority was present for questions.

Titan Material Handling’s proposed 23,346-square-foot office and…